Terry L. Miethe > Quotes

“A truly humble person probably won't be what most call “humble.” “He will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.” The very first step—a big one—in acquiring humility is to realize that you are proud. Thinking that you are not conceited is to be “very conceited indeed.” COMMENTARY Pride is so extreme a sin that it is the reason we pit ourselves against God! It is the reason we dare think we can be gods! Augustine thought it the root of all evil. Aquinas believed it to be the most deadly and devastating of all vices, part of every sin. This is why Lewis said that as long as we suffer from pride we cannot know”
― Terry L. Miethe, Shepherd's Notes: C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: The Most Concise and Accurate Way to Grasp the Essentials

“One must reach the point of “not caring two straws about his own status” before he can wish wholly for God's kingdom, not his own, to be established.' Death to ambition as such will be the beginning of new life. Above all, the part of a man which puts success first must be humiliated if a man is ever to be really free.”
― Terry L. Miethe, Shepherd's Notes: C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: The Most Concise and Accurate Way to Grasp the Essentials